SCHOOL OF LAW • SINCE 1912 WINTER 2012 At The Helm - Introducing Our New Dean 100-Year Stories Center For Law In Public Service Table Contents winter 2012 of Dean MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN . 3 Jane Korn Features Managing Editor AT THE HELM: JANE B. KORN . 4 Nancy Fike 100-YEAR STORIES BY GARY RANDALL . 8 . Contributing Writers Departments Greg Anderson IN THE NEWS . 10. Virginia DeLeon Commissioner McCown Honored .................................................................................. 10 Brooke Ellis Justin L. Quackenbush Lecture Series ............................................................................ 10 Nancy Fike Retirement/Farewell ................................................................................................. 10 Gonzaga Law Welcomes Kurt Meyer ............................................................................. 10 Jeff Geldien Inga Laurent Appointment .......................................................................................... 11 E.J. Ianelli Linda Rusch: Chair of ABA Business Law Section ............................................................. 11 John Kafentzis Gonzaga Law Welcomes Robbie McMillian to New Role .................................................... 11 Inga Laurent Red Mass .............................................................................................................. 12 Race & Criminal Justice Conference .............................................................................. 12 Spokane Veterans Court ............................................................................................. 13 Graphics Editor Study Abroad Programs .............................................................................................. 15 Tracy Martin Changes in the Gonzaga Neighborhood .......................................................................... 16 Copy Editors CLINIC NEWS. .17 . John Kafentzis SUMMATIONS: STUDENT NEWS . 18 Juli Bergstrom Wasson 2011 Spring Commencement ...............................................................................................................18 Linden Cup and Heidelberg ................................................................................................................. 20 Washington State Bar Exam Celebration .............................................................................................20 Photographers WSBA IP Reception ..............................................................................................................................20 Rajah Bose Mission Possible Trip ............................................................................................................................21 Brooke Ellis Orientation Service Project...................................................................................................................21 Extern Andres Moses ...........................................................................................................................21 Nancy Fike 2014 Class Profile .................................................................................................................................22 Jeff Geldien CENTER FOR LAW IN PUBLIC SERVICE (CLIPS). .23 . The Gonzaga Lawyer is published biannually STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS. .24 . for alumni, faculty, staff and friends of SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT. 25. Gonzaga University School of Law. The John R. Clark Loan Repayment Assistance Program Please contact the CLASS ACTION . 26 Office of Alumni Relations at 509.313.3605 RISING STARS. .30 . or [email protected] SUPER LAWYERS . 32 if you have comments or suggestions. ALUMNI EVENTS . 36 Visit our home page at Law Firm Challenge Winners .............................................................................................................. 38 www.law.gonzaga.edu HONOR ROLL . 39 IN MEMORIAM . 50 . ON THE COVER: Dean Jane Korn shares a smile and conversation with students outside of the Law School. Read more about the new dean in the feature article, “At the Helm.“ Dean Korn tells of her career path and what led her to her Gonzaga post. 2 GONZAGA LAWYER Message the Dean from vision t is wonderful to be at Gonzaga who serve on the Washington Supreme Law School and the year is off to a Court – Chief Justice Barbara Madsen, Igreat start. I have started meeting Justice Mary Fairhurst and Justice Debra alumni in Spokane, Seattle, Montana Stephens. The Red Mass was well and Anchorage, and many more trips are attended, well received and all enjoyed planned. I am enjoying becoming a part the reception that followed. One justice of this warm and welcoming community mentioned that it was wonderful to of people who care about Gonzaga and its be honored without having to make a mission. I am thankful for the hard work speech. of those who came before me to help The start of the school year also saw the make Gonzaga what it is today and want largest conference ever put on at Gonzaga DeanDean Jane JANE Korn KORN to send a special thanks to former Dean Law School. Professor Jason Gillmer, Earl F. Martin and formerly acting Dean the John J. Hemmingson Chair in Civil George Critchlow. Liberties was the leader behind the Classes began August 22 and we down, as are takers of the LSAT. Law welcomed 176 new 1L students. students may face significant debt in a This entering class is 51 percent “I am enjoying becoming difficult job market. We face pressure over female. Despite declining applications a part of this warm and rankings in U.S. News & World Report. nationwide, we were able to bring in But on the upside, these challenges this group of remarkable students at the welcoming community of have reinforced our beliefs in the value expected class size. Our new students people who care about of a legal education. We know that a hail from 29 different states, the District law degree will serve our students well, of Columbia, and Canada and they Gonzaga and its mission.” whether they use their education in represent more than 80 different colleges conventional practices or in less traditional and universities. This interesting and applications. In response to the changing varied group includes a member of the Race and Criminal Justice in the West world of practice, we have and will Utah Air National Guard who was the Conference on Sept. 24. The conference continue to focus attention on our strong only female flight line worker on her included more than 60 panelists who skills curriculum – Gonzaga’s innovative base, one who is fluent in Korean and presented on a depth and breadth of program puts us ahead of the curve. topics. More than 150 people from someone who taught English in Korea. I am often asked about my vision for the across the country attended providing a In their midst are a 2010 NCAA regional Law School. And while I am grateful remarkable buzz in the hallway between high jump qualifier, an environmental that I get to help shape the future of panel presentations. One of the attendees geologist, a football player who also has this fine institution, I cannot do it alone. sent us a thank you note for “hosting an MBA, a former teacher on an Indian Together with faculty, alumni and others, one of the most inspiring, educational, reservation, a first degree certified black we will endeavor to stay current, involved and action-oriented conferences I’ve ever belt in karate, and a nurse who runs and progressive. We will build on our attended.” Look for this interesting and marathons (including qualifying for the skills curriculum and add to it. We will thought-provoking conference again next Boston Marathon) who also has four strive to bring greater national attention year! children. to the Law School, and we will work to We have been busy at the Law School. Gonzaga Law School, like other law make sure students have access to legal On Sept. 12, we celebrated Red Mass, schools across the nation, faces significant education by providing more scholarship honoring our three Gonzaga alumnae challenges. Law school applications are opportunities. GONZAGA LAWYER 3 At the helm: Jane B. Korn by Virginia deLeon “Gonzaga captured my ome attorneys were born into the profession, raised by families with long lineages of lawyers and encouraged to follow in their footsteps. Others knew from an early heart, the people here are Sage that they would grow up to pass the bar and become part of a field dedicated to committed to their students, justice and upholding the law. to teaching and to scholarship. Jane B. Korn, on the other hand, didn’t have a clue about her future. As a child growing up in a working-class suburb of New Jersey, Korn never imagined she I interviewed at different would go to law school — let alone lead one as the dean. places, but Gonzaga and Her grandparents didn’t go to college. Neither did her parents. She grew up at a time when Spokane felt like home.” women — if they worked outside the home — became teachers or nurses. Korn’s parents encouraged and expected her to earn a university degree, but she didn’t exactly have the background or opportunities that would have sparked an interest in law. Korn was almost 30 years old by the time she discovered her calling. Today, the woman who spent her early 20s earning a living as a secretary, as an office worker at a sewing company and as a tour guide at Colorado’s Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is now an accomplished attorney, an award-winning professor and the first woman to lead Gonzaga University School of Law in its 99-year history. As she embarks on her